Author: Jay Crone

Following up on Josh’s post yesterday, knowing a few of the key stories going on in the markets is critical when going into an interview and another topic you should absolutely have an opinion on is the Brexit. The UK’s decision to leave the European Union was a major shock to the financial markets and[…]

Not long ago, I wrote a post explaining that Josh wasn’t the only one at BBS that managed to convert an application at BMO into an interview and I included the actual cover letter I used to land an investment banking interview there. Well, we changed our web hosting provider and somehow that post disappeared[…]

Of all the services we offer at Breaking Bay Street, I think our resume and cover letter service has the highest ROI. A bad application means you don’t even get the chance to tell your story in person and it will feel like the whole recruitment process ends before it even begins. A good resume means multiple[…]

Most people that have even the slightest idea about what it’s like to work in investment banking know that the hours are tough. They hear about the long nights and weekends spent at the office and ponder whether they could survive the grind. What they don’t hear about is how, the continuous exposure to the[…]

This is a continuation of previous post. You can read parts 1 and 2 here and here . The sit down, though painful, proved to be a major turning point of my internship. With the live deal complete, the pace slowed a little (down a notch from completely out of control) and I was able[…]

This is a continuation of previous post. Disaster that I was, there are of course systems in place to prevent the erratic work of a brand new analyst from making its way into the hands of anyone important. In this case that the system consisted primarily of the associate I was working with. He marked[…]

There were a lot of lessons learned during my first month as a summer intern at Scotia and many of them didn’t come easily. Almost as soon I started, I got pulled into a live deal with the Power group, who was in the middle of doing a preferred share offering for a large Canadian[…]

This is a continuation of 2 previous posts. See parts 1 and 2 here and here. Finally, while looking over at the staffer still working away at his desk, I decided I was done. I packed up my stuff and took off. I figured that even though there were still a lot of people at[…]

This is a continuation of a previous post. See the first party of the story here. As it happened, my first assignment was of the type ideally suited to a freshly minted summer student. Lots of work, not that complicated and no pressing deadline. That said, I was administratively challenged and what would later become[…]

When you’re a student, hoping to start a career in investment banking, you imagine a glamourous world of deal-making between the bankers and CEO and CFOs of major corporations, but that’s not quite what you get on your first day on the job as a summer analyst. When I started as a summer analyst at[…]